Bad husbands will make bad wives.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.